SF News Accused Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Found Guilty On Nine Counts After a trial where more than a dozen women described encounters of being grabbed, groped, or kissed by suspect Bill Gene Hobbs, Hobbs was found guilty Wednesday afternoon on eight misdemeanor counts and one felony.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bissap Baobab Wins Fight With NIMBY Condo Neighbors, Gets Alcohol License The Mission Street neighbors of Bissap Baobab failed to block the Senegalese restaurant and nightclub’s beer and wine license, as the state ABC ruled that Bissap Baobab has done more than adequate soundproofing work.
SF News Walgreens Forced To Pay SF Record-Breaking $230 Million For Its Role In Creating Opioid Crisis Pharmacy chain Walgreens will have to pay San Francisco $230 million — the largest sum it will pay to any city — for its role in overprescribing opioids and helping create the fentanyl crisis.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bayview Is Getting a New Farmers' Market Starting June 1 A new farmers market hopes to change the Bayview District’s reputation as a food desert, as food justice nonprofit Dragonspunk is coming to Evans Avenue on June 1, and will run every Thursday going forward.
Arts & Entertainment Tupac Shakur Getting A Street Named After Him In Oakland Near Lake Merritt All eyes will be on a block of MacArthur Boulevard north of Lake Merritt, as the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to rename a block of that street “Tupac Shakur Way.”
SF Politics California Lawmakers Reluctant To Impose Harsher Fentanyl Laws State legislators in Sacramento have passed plenty of bills on fentanyl treatment and recovery services, but the bills intended to punish dealers and users of the drug have stalled.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein Reportedly Forgot She’s Been Absent From the Senate for Months The summertime “free movies in the park” schedule has dropped, a former BART cop is losing his job over a racist video, and Dianne Feinstein apparently forgot that she’d been missing from the Senate for nearly three months.
Arts & Entertainment Woohoo! Bay to Breakers No Longer Being Organized By Right-Wing MAGA Group Last year’s Bay to Breakers was marred by revelations that organizer Capstone Event Group gave donations to Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but new local organizers have taken over operation of this year’s race.
SF News Poll: One-Third of SF Small Businesses Hit By Crime Multiple Times Last Year A new poll from the Office of Small Business says that a third of SF small businesses were not just victims of crime, but victims of crime between two and ten times last year.
SF Politics Big-Money Tech Group Launches Bizarre Ad Campaign Making Sarcastic Jokes About Fentanyl Crisis A new-ish, tech-funded political advocacy group is putting flippant “That’s Fentalife!” ads across town, hoping that sardonic jokes about the fentanyl crisis will get people angrier at SF elected officials.
SF News Incredibly Pricey Trash Can Drama Returns, City Hall Committee Halts New Cans' Approval The saga of what were originally the widely derided $20,000 trash cans is back in the headlines, as a City Hall committee has put the final approval of the “Slim Silhouette” bins on hold over vandalism concerns.
SF News Whoa! You’ll Have to Pay SF Parking Meters ‘Til 10 p.m., Starting In July The SFMTA is literally trying to nickel-and-dime its way out of a $130 million deficit, as drivers will have to feed the meters at SF parking spaces until 10 p.m., starting in July in some neighborhoods, and free Sunday parking will be a thing of the past.
Bay Area Sports A’s Announce Agreement for New Vegas Ballpark, One Week After Bailing On Previous Vegas Ballpark The Oakland A’s claim they have a done deal to build a stadium at the Tropicana casino site on the Las Vegas Strip, though they just backed out a similar land deal last week, and the whole scenario is contingent on $400 million in yet-unapproved Nevada taxpayer money.
Arts & Entertainment BART, Caltrain Running Special Early Trains This Sunday For Bay to Breakers With Bay to Breakers starting at 8 a.m. Sunday, BART and Caltrain are both firing up special fleets of early morning trains for the occasion so “runners” from all over the Bay Area can be at the starting line in time for the race.
SF News New Squad of Community Ambassadors Hopes To Clean Up Mission District Blight A new group of “Mission Community Connector” ambassadors is being deployed starting today in the Mission District, in an effort to abate the neighborhood's rampant tent camping, street vending, and sidewalk drug use.
SF News CNN To Bash SF Sunday In Hour-Long Special, ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ CNN will continue its Fox News tilt this Sunday night with an hour-long special called ‘What Happened to San Francisco?’ a mini-documentary determined to push the “failed city” narrative.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Baby Falcon Chicks Get Names: Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr The naming contest winners have been declared for the batch of three baby peregrine falcons atop the Berkeley Campanile, and going forward the fast-growing chicks will be known as Luna, Rosa, and Zephyr.
SF News SoCal YouTuber Admits He Crashed An Airplane Just for the Clicks, Faces 20 Years In Prison A 29-year-old YouTuber from Lompoc has pleaded guilty to crashing an airplane on purpose for the pageviews, then lying to federal investigators and clandestinely disposing of the wreckage.
SF News Mega-Landlord Veritas Investments In Default on Loans, Could Lose a Third of Its Buildings SF’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments has $1 billion in delinquent loans that the company is trying to sell off, and could lose about a third of its properties across town.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Announce 2023 Schedule, Will Play Monday Night Football on Christmas Day Six cars were torched this afternoon at the Antioch BART station, Banko Brown's mother has given her first interview, and the 49ers’ 2023 schedule has been released.
SF News That Gray Whale Who Spent a Record Two Months In San Francisco Bay Has Died It was not a good sign that a gray whale had been sticking in the waters of the SF Bay since February, and we now know he’d been hit by ships twice, and has been found dead at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Adobe HQ Gets New LED Semaphore Puzzle, and Another Contest To Solve It A new LED semaphore brain-teaser is being projected atop Adobe’s San Jose Almaden Tower headquarters, and you can win free Adobe software for solving it, though it is unlikely to be solved for many years.
SF News Detectives Detail How They Found the Alleged Killers In the Freeway Shooting of Toddler Jasper Wu Highway Patrol officers took the stand and detailed their sleuthwork on how they found the alleged shooters in the Oakland freeway shooting of toddler Jasper Wu, describing an elaborate investigation involving jail calls, wiretaps, and even car advertisements.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California Bacon and Pork Regulations on Pig Confinement The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the California law saying that pigs must have enough room to turn around and lie down for their meat to be sold here in the state, in a ruling that sliced wildly across ideological lines.
SF News After Banko Brown Shooting, Supervisor Preston Wants To Ban Retail Security Guards From Using Guns As the controversy rages on over Banko Brown being shot and killed over $14 worth of shoplifted items, Supervisor Dean Preston is drafting legislation to prohibit retail security guards from drawing loaded weapons to protect store inventory.